Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-27
DAKOTA NEWS.

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ball club.
The Rapid City wheelman are organ
izing bicycle club.
Lincoln County scandinavians cele-
bratcd the 18th inst.
The farmers Of Hughs county have
organized an alliance.
The big Muddy" is quite high at Bis
marck and further west.
The Territorial Railroad Commission
met at Fargo few days ago.
-Si,us Falls has raised the $500
guaranty for the Duluth line.
"A reunion of old soldiers will DO held
at Blunt on Wednesday, May Is.
Miss Lydia Wsbber will teach the
summer term of school at jefferson.
The Mclean County 1fasl, ]. E. Brit
ton, editor, has made its appearance.
"A ball was given OF Grafton recently
for the benefit of the fire companies.
-Watertown is already making arrange
ments TO celebrate the Fourth of July.
The Cass County tax title case, in
volving $50, 200, is being heard by the
court.
-Sturgis City people are jubilant over
the prospect of securing q railroad this
season.
Fargo claims that the workings of the
Interstate commerce law are not o disad-
vantage to that town.
The spring meeting of the Central As
socistion of the Congregational churches
was held at Highmore.
The laws are now ready for the printer,
and it is likely they will be ready for dis
tributon in sixty days.
The opening day of the Pierre boom
is liked for the 23d inst, barring accidents
and misplaced switches.
Huron has organized s'Homely Mans
Club" and Col. Bob Lowrey was unani-
mously elected chairman.
The chances for the opening of the
Sioux Reservation to settlement by the
present Congress are considered good.
The number of settlers driven from
the Grow Creek Reservation has been
greatly overstated. They number 500.
In game of ball between the Pierre
club and the soldier club at Fort Sully, the
blue coats came out ahead by score of %
to 10.
DR.. II. Russell, of Huron, has received
$4,000 back pension, and will receive $12
a month during the remainder of his life
time.
j. NJ. Quinn, of the Bismarck Tribune,
has been elected Secretary of the Dakota
Railroad Commission. with a salary of
$1,000.
The mayor of Fargo requires the po-
licemen of the city TO wear good clothes,
keep. sober, and stay out of saloons while
on duty.
Grand Forks boys recently abstained
from playing ball during an entire Sabbath.
fact that was fatteringly commented on
by the local press.
-Jerauld County farmers complain tina
asmall insect, similar to a potato bug, is
destroying the cottonwood groves in that
part of the Territory.
-Jerauld County farmers complain that
small insect, similar to potato bug, is
destroying the cottonwood groves in that
part of the Territory.
The May term of the Supreme Court
of Dakota is in session, and it will prob
ably be the longest and most important
term of that court ever held.
-Incendiary fires are of such frequency
at Pierre that should On offender in that
direction be caught he is very likely to
have his trial before Judge Lynch.
&C. L. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass,
brother of Lydia e. Pinkham, has arrived
in Sioux Falls for the purpose Of estab-
fishing Wholesale boot and shoe house.
Parent, the Walworth County man
who was arrested for incest few weeks
ago, escaped from the Ipswich Jail day or
two ago and fed the country. He was as
sisted by confederates on the outside.
Robert Gordon, farmer of Hand
County, was found wandering near his
home IN an insane condition. He was
cared for by the county and judged to be
insane, and sent to the asylum at Yankton.
There are to be two towns between
Salem and Mitchell, one at Wolf Creek
stone quarry ana Tue Otner ten miles from
Mitchell. They will be plated and sold
this month. The name of the first vii
probably be Spencer.
The county local option convention
held ct Huron recently was we'll attended,
delegates being present from twenty-one
townships. The temperance workers in
Beadle County are fully awake and pro-
pose to keep the fight up until after lee
ton.
The steamboat Eclipse, which ieft
Bismarck short time ago, struck fock
six miles shove Fort Berthold and sunk,
her prov being in shallow water and her
stern in ten feet. Another boat has beep
sent to take the cargo and continue tie
trip. The loss is covered by insurance.
The third annual Territorial Fair will
be held at Mitchell September 26 10 80.
The sum Of $4,000 is offered in prem"
miums. Free power for machinery. Pre-
MUM lists will be ready for distribution
June Is and can be procured, with any